OpenOffice Review by rediff
OpenOffice is a open source and free office suite. Open Office is multilingual and multiplatform office productivity suite which compatible with all other major office suites such as Microsoft Office. Open Office is full-featured office suite too with word processor Writer, spreadsheet Calc, multimedia presentation Impress, graphic manipulation Draw and database application Base, all now greatly improved in features and reliability with the release of version 2.0.2.
rediff reviewed OpenOffice 2.0 and even wrote the review with OpenOffice Write and concluded that the program surely can’t do everything that the Microsoft Office suite can. For instance, there’s no online collaboration or Smart Tags, no grammar check, no highly flexible outlining, smart table formatting or decent hot keys.
Being free software, it has no tech support in the traditional sense (though given the vast Web resources, this argument does not hold much water). Besides, anyone used to Excel is bound to face difficulties with OpenOffice’s Calc.
However, these teething problems are common with any new software (how many of us can exploit even one-tenth of Excel’s features?) Finally, anyone who wants a feature-rich but free office suite should give this option a try.
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January 25th, 2007 01:47
[...] OpenOffice.org (OOo) is a free office and business productivity suite that is a good alternative to costly Microsoft Office suite. Not only is OpenOffice.org is free to download, use and distribute, it’s also an open-source project, multiplatform, multilingual and compatible with all other major office suites, including Microsoft Office 2003, XP, 2000 and 97, with support for Office 2007 slated in upcoming release of OpenOffice. The problem is the other way round is not true, as Microsoft Office does not support OpenOffice.org file formats by default. OpenOffice.org support most Microsoft Office file formats, and can open and import Microsoft Office files such as Word documents, Excel workbooks and PowerPoint presentations. But Microsoft Office Word, Excel and PowerPoint do not support and cannot open OpenOffice file formats by default, thus making sharing of documents and files across platform difficult, especially if you want to send a file to a Microsoft Office user, or you have a mix of Microsoft Office users in your organization. So, for sharing or viewing and editing of documents with Microsoft Office programs, the files must be saved in a Microsoft Office format or in .rtf. [...]